My favorites: Literature

I consider the following literary works to be my favorites. Some of these I have revisited multiple times; others I read long ago, and I am unsure what my current opinions of them would be, but I include them based on the memory of my enjoyment.

Tragically, there are likely many other books I have read and loved, but have since forgotten, to the point that I do not even know I ought to re-read them to love them once more.

• Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
• Robert Aickman, Cold Hand in Mine (and all other collections)
• Samuel Beckett, Watt
• Samuel Beckett, Molloy
• Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles
• Thomas Bernhard, Correction
• Thomas Bernhard, Extinction
• Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure
• Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe
• Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe novels
• Jakub Deml, Forgotten Light
• Philip K. Dick, Valis
• Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos
• Stefan Grabiński, stories
• Peter Handke, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
• Peter Handke, A Moment of True Feeling
• Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
• Franz Kafka, The Castle
• Franz Kafka, stories
• Anna Kavan, Ice
• Ágota Kristóf, The Notebook Trilogy
• Alfred Kubin, The Other Side
• László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance
• Stanisław Lem, The Investigation
• Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco
• Arthur Machen, A Fragment of Life
• Gustav Meyrink, The Golem
• Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Stories
• Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
• August Strindberg, Inferno
• Roland Topor, The Tenant
• Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten